Word: indexer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxes for medicare (offset in part by another $1.6 billion excise-tax reduction). The other is a rise in prices-generally about 3% -that will be most noticeable on such items as jewelry, furs and leather goods; last week higher costs of goods and services pushed the consumer price index to a new high of 110.6. With consumers both affluent and confident, even these rises are likely to be offset by another phenomenon of the consumption economy: greater credit spending. Installment credit has risen to $66.8 billion, but consumers are paying their bills promptly, thereby making credit a push...
...scientists. For a week they tested the subjects in Oklahoma City to determine base lines for pulse, blood pressure, breathing rate, urinalysis, flicker-fusion time (how fast a light can flicker before it appears to merge into a steady beam), perspiration from the palms (an index of emotional tension), and rectal temperature every two hours round the clock...
...large green forms is a list of all the little sub-forms which you should include: "Reminder: A complete application consists of 4 copies of this form / 1 language report / 4 letters of reference / 1 certificate of health / all transcripts / 1 5x8 record card / 1 3x5 index card / 1 identification label / 5x8 card for applicant in creative and performing arts / 4 photographs / 1 information sheet / 1 5x8 State Dept. record card." (Perhaps the titles given to the last two forms on the list--actually quite innocuous--are meant to discourage SDSers and other Commie types from applying. The same unconscious...
Concentrated. Most of the 30 Dow-Jones stocks have not yet recaptured the highs that they fell from in last May's market break, but the 20 issues in Standard & Poor's index of low-priced stocks (less than $20) have jumped 39% above, their midyear lows. The most vigorously traded stocks lately have been highly speculative issues that have climbed spectacularly from their lows earlier this year. Among them, Transitron is up from 5 to 12⅛, Ampex from 13⅜ to 26⅜, Fairchild Hiller from 7 to 21, and SCM from...
...administration occasionally, particularly on civil rights. He also uses H. Stuart Hughes as a leftist straw man and has quite clearly removed some Hughes statements from their context. If he is dissatisfied with his role in the text, however, Hughes can be consoled by a moral victory in the index: he gets seven references to five for Edward Kennedy...